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Sneak Peek - Tsolenka Pass V 2.0

Hey everyone and happy Sneak Peek Thursday!Today I have something fun for you :) I've been asked by Pyram King to build a map for an upcoming release he's working on featuring Ludmilla, one of Strahd's brides, and a tower on a snowy pass. I felt this was a good opportunity to re-do one of my oldest maps, the Tsolenka Pass Gate and Tower.The Gate and Tower was one of the first CoS maps ...

Champion Tier - Reaching Fog Woods - 40x40

Update Sep 29th 2022: Hey everyone! My good friend and companion in this journey, Pyram King, has made an incredible video featuring this map along with one of my Berez Ruins map. It features an incredible encounter with lots of spiders and a wicked NPC named the Spider Queen. Her story is also interwoven with the Knights of Argynvostholt and Pyram really outdid himself! Warning: This is not for t...

The Fog of Waymoor Map Preview

Hey everyone! Here is a map preview of the three maps I made for the newest Lunch Break Heroes adventure "The Fog of Waymoor". This is a very fun, small adventure you can run your players through and makes it easy to drop into any pre-existing campaign setting.You can find my map post along with the adventure PDF here.Or you can get the adventure directly on the Lunch Break Heroes site if ...

Sneak Peek - Reaching Fog Woods

Greetings everyone and happy Sneak Peek Thursday!Today I'm excited to show off a small portion of my next map; The Reaching Fog Woods.It is always recommended to stay to the roads when traveling across Barovia, however, some parties might find the need venture into the haunted Svalich woods. As reaching, finger-like tendrils of fog swirl around your party, the branches of the dead trees loomin...

Champion Tier - The Fog of Waymoor (A Lunch Break Heroes Adventure)

Hey everyone and happy release day!Today I have a massive release for you. Today's release includes not only three different maps but also an original adventure written by the awesome Lunch Break Heroes (and comes with a custom token for a new monster). I've had the pleasure and honor of working with some amazing content creators and I've personally used a lot of Lunch Break Heroes cha...

Community Spotlight - Ricky Esquivias

Hey everyone!Community spotlight posts are some of my favorite to make because I am so grateful and humbled by how the community members use my maps in your game.For this post, one of our community members, Ricky Esquivias, used my Amber Temple map in their massive Curse of Strahd final battle with the binding of Vampyr! Look at the sheer size of the print out of this map and how much time and att...

The Fog of Waymoor - Sneak Peek

Hey everyone!Here is my sneak peek for this upcoming release and it's a big one! The Fog of Waymoor is an original, grim dark style, adventure written by Lunch Break Heroes with the maps done by me. This release will feature three maps. The swamp Town of Waymoor with exterior and interior locations, an inn, a church, and various villager buildings. The Marshlands which includes an ancient cryp...

Public Version - Interactive Tome: Chapter 4 - 50x40

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.Hi everyone and happy Monday!For today's release, we come back to visit the Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 4. This amazing adventure is written by The Aciduous Adventurer which you can check out over on the DMs Guild here. I am...

Champion Tier - Interactive Tome: Chapter 4 - 50x40

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.Update, March 29, 2020: Thanks to some great feedback from one of our community members, I have created a version of this map which includes the main table dining hall cleared out and the room prepared for the ball at the end of the cha...

Sneak Peek - Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 4

Hey everyone!Thought I would share a bit of my upcoming map, The Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 4. This map will use the same castle layout as chapter 3, however I will be removing the fighting pit and jousting area from the chapel gardens and making the garden area fuller. I will also be adding two new rooms to the map; Room K10, the Dining Hall and Room K36, Strahd's Dining Room. You ca...

March, 2022 - Update Post

Hi Everyone!I've been so buried in map making that I've barely had time to write an update post! But seeing as how our community here at DM Andy Maps has grown so much I thought it was a good time to let you know what's brewing in the cauldron.First, and always most importantly, I'd like to personally thank all of my patrons. Your support and engagement has been incredible and ever...

Public Version - Druid Cairns - 60x60

As you make your way through the Druidwood, the sounds of bones hanging from trees clink together with an eerie breeze howling off the massive, rocky hill looming before you. A raven caws loudly, perched upon a stone menhir, while pecking at a detached eye ball, severed from a creature. As unnatural lighting strikes a ring or boulders at the top of the hill, you spot ferocious, axe-wielding warrio...

Champion Tier - Druid Cairns - 60x60

As you make your way through the Druidwood, the sounds of bones hanging from trees clink together with an eerie breeze howling off the massive, rocky hill looming before you. A raven caws loudly, perched upon a stone menhir, while pecking at a detached eye ball, severed from a creature. As unnatural lighting strikes a ring or boulders at the top of the hill, you spot ferocious, axe-wielding warrio...

Sneak Peek - Yester Hill - Berserker Cairns

Hey everyone and happy Thursday AND St. Patrick's Day! I wanted to share with you all a sneak peek of my newest Yester Hill map which should finish up this area. This map will be a 60x60 map and will include a three tiered rocky slope with the burial cairns. I also added a stone circle at the base of the hill in the event you are using the Curse of Strahd Reloaded guide by DragnaCarta. This ma...

Champion Tier - The City of Marionette's - 52x60

Greetings everyone and happy Monday!I'm always excited on Monday's to release my newest map to this amazing community of DM's and map enthusiasts. Today, I have a very special release for you; The City of Marionette's!This was a side project I had been working on for a classic AD&D adventure featuring the town of Odiare. This location has resurfaced in Van Richten's Guide to Ra...

Sneak Peek - The City of Marionettes

Hey everyone! So I've been working on some side projects that I am really excited share with you. This massive city map was inspired by a domain of dread from AD&D called Odaire which is ruled over by the dark lord Maligno, an evil Carrionette created by the toy maker Guiseppe. You can also find a small blurb about this in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft on pg. 171.This is the biggest cit...

Public Version - The Interactive Tome: Chapter 3 - 50x40

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.Hey everyone and happy Monday!For today's release, we I pleased to post the third chapter of the amazing Interactive Tome of Strahd adventure. If you have not yet run this, or are not familiar with it, you can check it out over on t...

Champion Tier - Interactive Tome: Chapter 3 - 50x40

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.Update: Thanks to user feedback, I created a version with the throne facing forward and updated the files. I did this for the day maps but if anyone wants this also for the night maps, just let me know and I'm happy to update.Origin...

Sneak Peek - Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 3

Hey everyone!Just wanted to share a sneak peek of the third installment for the Interactive Tome of Strahd series of maps. This one took a bit to build out the chapel roofs, but I think in the end it's worth it! This map will feature a number of key locations around the castle and will include: The Overlook The Chapel Garden The Northern courtyard which will have a version with the joust and o...

Champion Tier (Free) - Guide to the Worg Cave - By Pyram King

Hey everyone!Today I have a very special surprise for you. The amazing D&D content creator Pyram King has graciously gifted our community with a copy of his Guide to the Worg Cave .PDF! This guide was built using my Worg Cave map which can be found here. This special release comes 100% free to you all as a gift for your incredible support both to Pyram and myself. We are eternally grateful to be a...

Champion Tier - The Ageless Bones - Adventure & Map Collab w/ Lunch Break Heroes

Hey everyone!As a long time supporter of Lunch Break Heroes, it is my absolute pleasure to release my newest map along with the original adventure written by LBH! I've used a lot of LBH's content for my own CoS campaign and this is my fourth map I've created for their original adventures.Today's release is a little different from my typical battlemap style as it features the entire...

Sneak Peek - The City of Helm's Grove

Hey everyone! Today I have some exciting news to share with you and show off a glimpse of one of my newest maps. This project is a collaboration with Lunch Break Heroes for their newest adventure: The Ageless Bones. This map is a slight detour from the battlemaps I normally do and includes a full scale city named Helm's Grove.This map will be done in the watercolor art style much like my Grim ...

Map Tutorial Video - Fallen Log

Hey everyone! So I have to brag a little here (and I know I am 100% biased when I say this) but my wonderful wife has put together this really neat tutorial video while she was recording one of my map making sessions. She has helped me navigate the world of social media, which I am completely inept in, and learned all of the video editing needed to make video's like this. I'm not sure if t...

Champion Tier - Druid Forest - 40x40

Hey everyone and happy Monday! For today's release, I bring you the Druid Forest. This map is perfect for the road leading south to through the Druid Forest and leads you party deeper into their territory. The corruption has spread far and wide here.This map is a 40x40 map and will contain plenty of spaces for interesting encounters with the druids, rituals, or even ambushes. I also created a ...

Sneak Peek - Druid Forest

Hey everyone! Excited for Sneak Peek Thursday and today, I bring you a glimpse of my newest map; The Druid Forest.I have generic maps throughout Barovia but I wanted the southern road going to Yester Hill to feel a little different from the pine swept forests of the Svalich Woods. This forest map will be 40x40 and filled with a small path leading from north to south and plenty of grisly markings o...

Public Version - Interactive Tome: Chapter 2 - 30x30

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.Hey everyone and happy Monday! I'm excited to bring you Chapter 2 of the amazing 3rd party content, The Interactive Curse of Strahd by The Aciduous Adventurer which can be found here.This 30x30 map features both locations within thi...

Champion Tier - Interactive Tome: Chapter 2 - 30x30

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.Hey everyone and happy Monday! I'm excited to bring you Chapter 2 of the amazing 3rd party content, The Interactive Curse of Strahd by The Aciduous Adventurer which can be found here.This 30x30 map features both locations within thi...

Sneak Peek - Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 2

Hey everyone! Excited to showcase a little of the next map release for Monday. This time I am building a map for Chapter 2 of the Interactive Tome of Strahd (Third party resource which you can find here).This map is a 30x30 map and features two locations from the adventure: The Courtyard of Castle Ravenloft (Pre-Vampire Strahd) and Strahd's Study.Even though there is only one optional combat e...

Champion Tier - Worg Den - 40x40

Update March 1st, 2022: Added the Adventure write up by Pyram KingOriginal Post:Hey everyone and happy Monday!Today's release is a request from fellow content creator Pyram King. It features a snowy Worg Den that can be found in the Frigid Mountains forested areas near the Werewolf Den. He will be working on some content for this map soon so you can follow his channel here.Even if you don'...

Sneak Peek - Worg Cave

Hey all,Been working on a request from the amazing Pyram King to add a new map to the werewolf area north of Krezk (If you are not familiar, check out his channel here!). This map will include some custom content he is working on with a Worg den in the snowy mountains.I think this map will make for a good general use map both for the Werewolf Den area, Mt. Ghakis, or even Mt. Baratok. It will be a...